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MONTGOMERY CO., VA. 



Open for the Reception of Visitors on 1st of June 






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COLHOUN & COWAN, 
Capt. C A. COLHOUN, 



Proprietors. 
Resident Partner. 



CIiIiRES: 



Dr. P. GOOLRICK, Resident Physician. 




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This popular and fashionable place of summer resort will be open 
for the season of lST-i, on the first day of June prox. Encouraged 
by the generous patronage that met us during the season of 1873, 
the management will spare no effort to make these Springs the lead- 
ing place of summer resort in the mountains of Virginia. Antici- 
pated extensive improvements were unavoidably suspended by the 
effects of the financial panic that swept over the country, and by the 
necessity the proprietors saw themselves under of concentrating in 
their hands the outstanding stock in these Springs. 

Whilst announcing to our friends the consolidation of nearly the 
entire stock, and a resumption at an early date of our plans of 
extensive additions and improvements, we shall be able to offer to 
our visitors in the season of 1S74, increased facilities and many 
needed alterations and improvements, completed during the last 
inter-spring season. 

The reputation of our Capt. Colhoun as a spring manager is too 
well established to need more than an allusion here to ensure to our 
guests a due attention to their comfort, &e., and that in every de- 
partment he will be assisted by an able staff. 

We request the attention of our former patrons, and of all those 
in search of a first-class, efficiently appointed and conveniently lo- 
cated place of summer resort, to these Springs, and remain, 
Very respectfully, 

Colhoun & Cwoan, 

Proprietors. 



Montgomery white sulphur springs. 



Location. 

These Springs are located in the county of Montgomery, on the 
line of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Eailroad. They are 81 
miles west of Lynchburg, and 123 miles east of Bristol. Occupying 
one of the most beautiful valleys in the grand mountain range of 
the Alleghanies, they enjoy the invigorating, bracing climate of the 
mountains of Virginia, without the rigor of more exposed localities. 
The changes of temperature are remarkably graduated in this valley, 
and present to the feeble in health, as well as to the strong, a de- 
lightful refuge from the heat of summer and the climatic changes 
of other localities. {Situated immediately on the line of one of the 
great thoroughfares of the country ; surrounded by watering places 
of noted resort ; within six miles of the Virginia Agricultural and 
Mechanical College at Blacksburg; the nearest point of access to 
the noted Salt Fond mountain and its magnificent scenery ; some 
15 miles distant from the New river, a stream which in its pic- 
tnresque scenery may well deserve the name of the '"Virginia 
Ehine ;" the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs offers in its locale 
prominent attractions to the visitors. 

Facilities, &c. 

These Springs, always a favorite place of resort for the people of 
this section and State, were first opened to the general public in 1S51-. 
The buildings, &c, are of the most substantial kind, possessing great 
architectural merits and fully able to accommodate 1,000 visitors. 
They surround a beautiful lawn, traversed by a brook, and planted 
with choice shade trees. The reception house, baths, &c, are of the 
most convenient kind, and the cottages well ventilated, and newly and 
elegantly furnished. The dining-room is in size and appointments 
equal to that of any of the watering places of the State. All facili- 
ties will be offered for the comfort and amusement of the visitor. 

The bar is fitted up in modern style and provided with the choicest 
liquors and cigars. 



MONTGOMERY WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 3 

The ten-jrin alleys, Miliar d rooms, etc., have been overhauled and 
newly fitted. 

Croquet sets, A:c., will be provided on the lawn. 

Balls, etc., will take place on stated occasions. 

A first-class livery will be kept, affording facilities to the guests 
to visit the different places of interest of the neighborhood. 

Arrangements for religious services have been perfected with 
leading ministers of the different religions denominations. 

Objects of Attraction. 

The foremost of these is the magnificent mountain scenery of the 
Alleghanies, surrounding this popular place of summer resort. The 
picturesque peaks, lovely valleys, emerald summer foliage, and gor- 
geous tints of the autumnal landscape of these mountains, with their 
varying shades of light and dark, form ever objects, of admira- 
tion to the eye. A lake has been constructed during the winter, 
providing in its boats and fish amusement to the visitor. 

Amongst the objects of interest in the neighborhood may be men- 
tioned the Dudley Cascade, a fall of ninety feet over a rugged cliff 
of solid rock, some 2-J miles from the Springs, near the north fork 
of Roanoke river. This fall presents in an eminent degree the bean- 
ties of a mountain cascade, and with its incrustations and stalactytes 
of lime, is well worth the inspection of the visitor. It is approached 
by a lovely drive over well-kept roads along the banks of Roanoke 
river. The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacks- 
burg forms also an object of interest of the neighborhood, and the 
fine trial farm connected with it interests the visitor. As the session 
of this college extends during the summer, visitors will be able to 
examine this Institution in full operation. 

Beyond Blacksburg, the Mountain lake in Giles county, and 
the New river, dividing Montgomery and Pulaski counties, offer 
points of attraction and a scenery unequalled in any region for 
the contemplation of the lover of the picturesque in nature, that 



4 MONTGOMERY WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 

will fully repay a drive over the well-kept roads leading to these 
places of interest. On New river a comfortable boat, capable of 
accommodating fifty persons, has been provided by Maj. Cowan, 
affording onr visitors opportunities of visiting and to admire the 
unrivalled scenery of the New river, the grandest Mountain scenery 
in Virginia, if not in the United States. 

Mineral Waters, &c. 

The waters of these Springs have long been favorably known for 
their hygienic properties. 

They consist of three bold Sulphur Springs, one Chalybeate and a 

Freestone Spring. 

These waters are gathered in handsome marble reservoirs, sur- 
mounted by tasteful pavillions. Suitable arrangements for warm, 
cold and sulphur hath 8 are provided, thus furnishing to the invalid, 
and to the sojourner at the Springs, full opportunities to benefit by 
the advantages the White Sulphur presents. 

In addition to these local waters, Alum and Saline waters will 
be provided from other Springs of this section, and be kept on hand 
for the use of our guests. 

To those preferring, Cistern water will be furnished. 

Routes. 

Visitors to the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs will stop at Big 
Tunnel station on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad, distant 
1^ miles from the Springs, with which it is connected by a railway 
track. The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad company, run two 
dailv trains, making close connections North and South. Elegant 
Palace Sleeping cars attached to all trains, and run through by these 
Springs, without change from New Orleans and from Norfolk, 
where connection is made with the daily line of steamers to Balti- 
more, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, &c. 



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A line of superior stages will run from this place to the Salt Fond 
mountain already alluded to. 

The livery connected with the place will afford opportunities to 
our visitors to visit the other watering places and points of interest 
in this vicinity. 

Musie, 

The proprietors take pleasure in announcing that they have 
secured the tine Marine Band from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, 
Maryland. 

Rates. 

s3 per day ; §18 per week ; $60 per month. For the months of 
June and October, 840. 

Children under ten years and over two years old, and colored ser- 
vants half price. White servants according to accomodations required. 

Special Terms : Our desire to accommodate families and those seek- 
ing the mountains for a more permanent stay, leads us to offer the 
following Special Teems, viz : 845 per month for any three consec- 
utive months or more. 

For further particulars, Arc, address 

COLHOUN & COWAN, Froprietors, 
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Va. 



6 MONTGOMERY WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, 

Letter from Professor Goolrick, M. D. 

College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md, 

Messrs. Colhoun & Cowan : 

Dear Sirs — In reply to jour communication asking my 
opinion of the Montgomery White Sulphur as a resort for the inva- 
lid, I would state that as Resident Physician at the Springs last 
season, I had a number of your large company on whom I observed 
the effects of the different waters, to- wit : Sulphur and Chalybeate, 
and climate, and consider it possesses superior advantages. The 
Sulphur Water was used both internally aud externally, with marked 
benefit in Gout, Rheumatism, Cutaneous and other diseases that 
called for alterative treatment. And the Chalybeate manifested its 
efficacy in gastro-intestinal affections,- and especially in those dis- 
eases peculiar to females. In addition, the elevated situation of 
the place, being near the summit of the Alleghany Mountains, ren- 
ders the air dry, pure and bracing, which contributes much to the 
action of the water, and fortunately the buildings are so arranged, 
that those who seek rest, quiet and home-like comfort, are not ex- 
posed to the bustle and excitement incident to such places. To the 
pleasure-seeker, and those who need the recuperative effects of a 
friendly atmosphere, genial society and beautiful scenery, it cannot 
be surpassed. 

Hoping your good management may hereafter, as in the past, 
bring liberal patronage, I am 

With much respect, 

Yours truly, 

P. GOOLR1CK, M. D. 



Letter from H. Black, M. D. 

Blacksburg, Va., April 21st, 1874. 

I reside six miles distant from the Montgomery White Sulphur 
Springs, and have been observing the effects of their waters for 
nearly 25 years. They are tonic, alterative, dieretic, and to som'e 



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extent diaphoretic and aperient. They contain large quantities of 
carbonic acid gas, rest lightly upon the stomach, and can be used 
more freely than most mineral waters. Their action lias been more 
specially observed in the relief of many cases of Dyspepsia and 
chronic diseases of the urinary organs. The} T are well suited to 
visitors from the low lands, promoting the secretions generally, aid- 
ino- digestion and invigorating the system. The surroundings are 
healthful and pleasant. 

II. BLACK, M. D. 



MONTGOMERY WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 



REFERENCE TO GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE VISITED THE SPRING 



A. M. Marks, Montgomery, Ala. 
1. T. Fargason, Memphis, Term. 
Jules A. Blanc, New Orleans, La. 

A. M. Brickham, New Orleans, La. 

B. J. Montgomeiy, New Orleans, La. 
Col. C. T. Pollard, Montgomery, Ala. 
Wm. J. Briscoe, Louisiana. 

Wm. McCutcheon, Vicksburg, Miss. 
Br. A. A. Yates, New Orleans, La. 
Gov. Gilbert C. Walker, Virginia, 
rapt, J. Vickery, Norfolk, Va. 
J. J. Irby, New Orleans, La. 
J. A. McCready, Shreveport, La. 
JDr. S. Mansfield, Memphis, Tenn. 
Charles E. Slayback, New Orleans, La. 
Maj. George C. Waddill, Vicksburg, Mis 
Thomas L. Aii'ey, New Orleans, La. 
Col. D. H. Cram, Montgomery, Ala. 
Gen. V. D. Groner, Norfolk, Va. 
Gen. J. R. Williams, Memphis, Tenn. 
John T. McDonald, Montgomery. Ala. 
Maj. John B. Noal, Norfolk, Va. 
Hon. R. H. Smi h, North Carolina. 
Col. Thomas Rigby, Vicksburg, Miss. 
John W. Buck, Vicksburg, Miss. 
Col. Wm. H. St ovall. Memphis, Tenn. 
Col. R. M.Johnson. Mississippi. 
Capt. J. T. Hicks, Memphis, Tenn. 
.J. J. Hooker, Lexington, Miss. 
Dr. Raul C. Lee, Montgomery, Ala. 
Hon. W. Parsons, Charleston, W. Va. 
Dr. J. L. Reynolds, Columbia. S. C. 
Wm. H. White, Norfolk. Va. 
Bishop Quintard, Tenn. 
Wm. B. Galbreath, Memphis, Tenn. 
J. T. Singleton, Miss. 

C. D. Woods, .Savannah. Ga. 
Hal. T. Walker, Montgomery, Ala. 
T. Charles Hume, Galveston, Texas. 
A. H. Armistead. Baltimore, Md. 
Gaines Whiteneld. Demopolis, Ala. 
Marshal Cassey, New Orleans, La. 

Col. Wm. Preston Johnson. Lexington, ' 

IT. C. Turnbull, Baltimore.Md. 

Judge Wright, Memphis, Tenn. 

Gen. H. Heath, North Carolina. 

Col. A. W. Spaight, Galveston, Texas. 

John Phelps, New Orleans. 

Wm. E. Cater, Milton El a. 

Wm. A. Goodwin, Memphis, Tenn. 

Dr. Warren White, Holly Springs, Miss. 

W. O. Harvey, Memphis, Tenn. 

W. B. Whitehead, Suffolk, Va. 

J. B. Hart, Union Point, Ga. 

Col. T. B. Bathea, Montgomery. Ala. 

Gen. John Ellicott, Baltimore. Md. 

Rev. C. C. Pinkney, Charleston. S. C. 

Josiah White, Montgomery, Ala. 

Dr. B. B. Barnett, Plain Stone, Ala. 



Dr. W. Preston Hicks, Columbia, S. C. 

Julius Aroni, New Orleans, La. 

Col. T. B. Roy, Selma, Ala. 

Hon. John Goode, Jr. Norfolk, Va. 

Richard Flower, New Orleans. La. 

H. E. Garth, Memphis, Tenn. 

John Holmes. New Orleans, La. 

Dr. J. A. A. AVest, Augusta, Ga. 

A. D. Coffee, Florence, Ala, 

Gov. John Letcher, Lexington, Va. 

Gen. Jubal A. Early, Lynchburg, Va. 

D. Weaver, Nashville, Tenn. 

Robert W. Brown. Nashville. Tenn. 

Admiral Raphael Semmes, Mobile, Ala. 

A. T. Brown, St. Joseph, La. 

Col. S. Mosby, Memphis. Tenn. 

John J. Burroughs, Norfolk, Va. 

Gen G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, I.: 

Gen. M. 0. Butler, South Carolina. 

Capt. Henry Jackson, Atlanta, Ga. 

Gen. Will. T. Martin. Natchez, Miss. 

Gen. D. H. Maury, Richmond, Va. 

Gen. C. Wilcox. Baltimore, Md. 

Rev. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Richmond, Va. 

Gen. W. C. Y. Humes, Memphis. Tenn. 

F. L. Lee, Galveston, Texas. 

1. P. Kipp, New Orleans, La. 

D. A. Given. New Orleans. La. 
Hon. R. E. Withers. Richmond, V'a. 
W. H. Taylor. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Uv. Jos. Berens, Philadelphia. Pa. 
Col. Thomas Ellis. Chicago, 111. 
Richard Scruggs, St. Louis. Mo. . 
Gov. W. L. Jackson. Louisville. Ky. 
Col. J. M. Heck. Raleigh, N. c. 

o. F. Brescc. Baltimore. Md. 
Dr. D. W. Lassiter, Petersburg, Va. 
Gen. Wm. Mahone, Petersburg, Va. 
Col. Frank Huger, Lynchburg, Va. 
col. Wm. Drinkard, Washington, D. c. 
Dr. P. Goolrich, Baltimore, Md. 
Prof. W. E. Peters. University of Va. 
Judge E. R. Watson, Charlottesville. Va 
.Mai. Jed. Hotchkiss. Staunton. Va. 
(Jen. A. R. Lawton, Savannah. Ga. 
A. Goodman, Savannah. Ga. 
Samuel Niles, Washington, D. C. 
Col. Jas. H. Rcid, Alexandria. Va. 
W. A. Collier. Memphis, Tenn. 
John II. Brinkley, Memphis. Tenn. 

E. Cordwent, Vicksburg, Mis<. 
Warren Christian, Mobile, Ala. 
W. T. Kilby, Portsmouth. Va. 
George Williams, Texas. 

H. J. Lamar, Macon. Ga. 

W. Flowers, Vicksburg, Miss. 

(4. W. R, Caskie, Va. Mil. Institute. Va. 

Col. J. T. Jett, Memphis. Tenn. 

John Kirkman. Nashville. 



